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Topic: This will seem trivial but... Why do they place the SpaceX logo so low on the FH? (Read 2534 times)

There must be a good reason because they have a lot of white space further up the booster cores and they actually over-draw the logo across one of the landing legs. It's interesting because I would assume that is not just a random location, there must be a logic to it to go to that extra trouble.

Because the top half of the first stage gets covered in ice when they fill it with liquid oxygen and you wouldn't be able to see the logo anymore.

And the bottom half will be covered in soot after some flights and the logo will not be visible either. Put it on the interstage!

Actually, the FH logo is on the interstage, same as for F9. Perhaps that's why they cleaned the interstage (but not the rest of the stage) for the CRS-13 S1 reuse? Of course it was sooty again by landing.